The Road to Debt Free

Ok, this is where the rubber meets the road. Starting January 1st, 2013, we are embarking on a journey to pay off the boatload (and I mean boatload) of debt that followed us (how did that happen?) from our suburbia lifestyle.

Using The Great Depression as our guide, we’ll work toward a lifestyle that is as much as possible reflective of many of the families during the Depression. It was a time of making do with little or nothing to make do with. It was a time where, by and large, you didn’t spend anything other than what was absolutely necessary.

Now, we’re not an extravagant family by any stretch of the imagination. We haven’t taken a family vacation in years, and buy our clothes on clearance, or used. But, like many families in America, we really don’t have a clue about what it’s like to make do without anything to make do with. To really and truly sacrifice the lifestyle we’ve become accustomed to. And honestly, that’s the kind of lifestyle it’s going to take for us to remove the mountain of debt that sits before us.